The Other Side #2

Cameron Stewart's cover for this 2007 Vertigo series bathes its central figure — a weary, rifle-clutching soldier in a helmet — in cool blue light, while the dense jungle foliage around him pulses with unseen menace, pairs of glowing yellow eyes watching from the shadows. Looming large in the background is the ghostly, purple-toned face of another young man, suggesting two very different perspectives on the same conflict. Jason Aaron and Stewart's The Other Side #2 carries the ominous story title "Where Man Is Not, Nature Is Barren," and this haunting image makes a compelling case for picking it up.